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Eaves is disappointed to announce that the Poppy Project’s funding has been cut by the government. However, we would like to reassure all our supporters and our clients that this is NOT the end for our essential support service for victims of trafficking.

We really need YOUR support, so please take action now.

Eaves pioneered UK support services for victims of trafficking almost a decade ago. But as a result of the government awarding the next two years of funding to the Salvation Army Poppy will lose 90% of the project’s funding.

We need to raise £1.8 million every year to keep providing high quality support and accommodation to women who have been trafficked for sexual or domestic exploitation, and their children.

With your financial support we can continue to:

Provide victims of trafficking and their children with one to one support, accommodation and other services to help them overcome their experiences.

* Campaign for justice; we have had no woman or child wrongfully deported in 10 years.
* Prosecute criminals; we have helped to put over 60 offenders behind bars for a combined total of over 500 years for trafficking related offences.
* Make the UK a hostile place for traffickers and therefore reduce the number of other crimes committed on UK soil by traffickers (eg. fraud, money laundering, arms dealing, gang crime, theft etc).
* Empower victims of trafficking to become active members of society; most of the women go on to work, run their own businesses or study at university.

Although the government has turned its back on our 10 years of expertise, we are determined to find funding from alternative sources because we believe that only through proper support will victims of trafficking be able to overcome their trauma. When Maria, a Poppy service user found out that our funding might come to an end she said,

‘I want to invite David Cameron to come down to Poppy and to speak to the women who they support and to see that they cannot take Poppy away. Poppy are my family and make me feel like a person again. Until Poppy, I have never been free’.

Because Maria has had access to one-to-one support, counselling, education, workshops, health care, legal advice and other services, she is now coming to terms with her experiences of being trafficked at the age of 16 and being exploited in prostitution for seven years. Maria is currently at college and hopes one day to be a nurse.

If you have any questions around how to donate, would like to increase your donation, or would like a fundraising pack, please contact our fundraising team on

* 020 7735 2062
* or e-mail fundraising@eaveshousing.co.uk

If you would like to support Poppy but do not want to donate money, you could buy an Eaves Mates Rates card for £20 (rrp £50).

Thank you to everybody who supports Eaves!

You can donate online at http://www.eaves4women.co.uk/Support_Us/DonateOnline.php